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Apple Confirms iPhone 5 Preorders Top 2 Million In 24 Hours
TheBoat writes "Apple announced on Monday that iPhone 5 preorders topped 2 million units in the smartphone's first 24 hours of pre-sale availability. That figure doubles Apple's first-day iPhone 4S sales last year, making the iPhone 5 Apple's fastest-selling smartphone ever. 'iPhone 5 pre-orders have shattered the previous record held by iPhone 4S and the customer response to iPhone 5 has been phenomenal,' Apple marketing boss Philip Schiller said."
Not sure why they're bragging about it, they're way behind the Galaxy S3 on this particular metric.
Not a troll, just interesting to see the enormous difference in preorder sales between two companies that are constantly at each others' throats.
I can understand why Samsung is launching their attack ads. This is crazy.
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By my calculations it's actually 1389 (rounded up) every minute.
The irony here is funny.
Since the first iPhone launch, Apple is now nearing 100 million total units sold. It blows my mind to think how many of these things are in the wild.
Let's keep some perspective here. They only sell one model at a time. All of the other vendors sell multiple models at the same time. The implication is that this is somehow the leading phone ecosystem or some such thing. In reality Apple doesn't even sell as many smart phones as Samsung alone, never mind all of the other vendors.
Android has 68% of the worldwide market compared to 17% for apple, which slipped from 19% a year before. Look I'm all for personal choice, I think apple has some pretty neat things that they do, but can we check the hype machine in Realityville please?
I'm not convinced that these people who buy the new version every time it comes out are anything other than a vocal minority.
And this vocal minority includes developers who need to own the latest and greatest in order to be able to test their products on the latest and greatest.
Apple does not release preorder numbers directly from carriers, and the iPhone 5 is launching on more carriers than any other iPhone version.
is that they don't have any more...
So even if they COULD HAVE sold 4 million... they didn't have it to sell.
Of course, they could have contracted with a large, reliable, parts builder to supply them...
Oh wait - the sued them didn't they.
So now they are with a bankrupt supplier...
Look at the sheep running for the food in the hopes of getting a better phone. Apple's people must be made of money, they are very willing to purchase anything Apple puts out and deal with the short comings.
They also don't seem to care about the workers and how they are treated or have the company blinders on. I am not just talking about the ones in China either, there have been numerous writeups about workers here in the US.
Let's stop putting money into these closed systems.
Only open systems can help reduce e-waste (just look at Linux, which can actually breathe new life into an old i386).
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
You'd think that people would wait a few days for the iPhone 5 to hit the market, get thoroughly tested/reviewed by various internet sites, build some word-of-mouth (is it genuinely good?). But not, millions of people go "I want, I want, I want" for a product they've never seen or touched in person. ------- Thank god for Android. I couldn't live in a world where Apple dominates everything. --------
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Stats like this need to make Samsung wonder - hey, we just posted a 'iPhone is crap, look at the comparison with S3' ad, and Apple calmly shows them the finger with a figure like 2M in 24 hours, not counting store sales. I don't see people camping out in front of Samsung stores more than a week in advance of a release, frankly because they have no idea what is going to come out next. Apple's strategy is simple - stick to one unified experience, make it good and market it far in advance of the release via their press/blog network. You gotta give Apple credit for doing what they do best - maintain a high degree of secrecy with just the right amount of leaks....
ALL those people that pre-ordered the samsung devices 'Sight unseen' were ok though... right?
People who pre-order anything are idiots... people who buy tickets in advance for a movie are stupid too right? They are sheep blindly following some silly trailer and thinking they might enjoy a movie. People who pre-order video games, music albums... dvds... all sheep. Right?
I hate when people use the term 'sheeple'... I am fully in charge of my technological wants and desires... I have several android devices, but I really enjoy my apple devices. I have the resources to upgrade when they come out with something new and I do. How does this make me a sheep? I'm not blindly purchasing some mythical happy box because someone said so... if I didn't want it, I wouldn't buy it. Simple as that.
2+ million "shut up and take my money!" dumb basterds.
- Mom's corp.
4G LTE.
And just like that, Slashdot becomes part of the Apple marketing machine.
by having all the international launches fall into Q4, where previous launches were sometimes spread over different quarters (Q4-Q1). This will of course lead to a misleading surge, and is hard to compare with previous launches, but if this crufty iArticle passes the bar for Slashdot nowadays, I'm sure they'll be very objective when comparing different release schedules and the numbers that go with them.
Phones sold show how many people have asked for one. Not whether they'll get one in the next six months. Whereas shipped units sell out within six months unless they do REALLY badly and have remainderd stock. Both ways collect a long time series of orders and put them into a single 24 hour period to amp up the purchase. I.e. do you really think that there will be 2 million sold each day for the first, say, three months? No.
Mind you, since phones aren't bought only from Apple direct, lots of those orders have to be orders to stock shelves too. So not really sure that this is any different. Except maybe this way they've paid up front.
You know, you buy a phone contract that upgrades your phone every three years or whatever. Well, guess what? Your iPhone4 is getting upgraded "for free" (i.e. whether you really want to or not) and this is being pre-ordered to fulfill that contract.
So I'm not trying to incite a flame war, but I'm honestly curious to see who is coming from what in the pre-order figures. By which I mean, how many are current iphone users looking to have their latest and greatest, who's switching from one ecosystem to another, how many are first time smartphone buyer, etc.
I've always wondered how these "millions of pre-orders" figures broke down.
My blood hurts...
I would still be baffled by people who would buy a cell phone without reading reviews first.
Somebody has to be first or else there are no reviews to read. But the real reason people are willing to buy early in this case is that Apple has a reasonably strong track record of releasing good products and this is a mostly evolutionary upgrade to a well understood product. Could it have a showstopper problem? Possibly - but the odds are that it will be fine and most of the likely problems . It's a risk of course but a calculated one. If you prefer to wait there is no harm in doing so. There are lots of products (including Apple's) where I won't buy the first edition. I wait for later versions where the odds of a serious problem are reduced.
Plus if it really turns out to be a problem you always have the option of switching phones. Might be expensive but you don't have to keep using it if you really don't want to. Anyone who can afford an iPhone probably can afford to replace it if they absolutely had to.
All these people clamoring about the economy "sucking" clearly have $$$ for an expensive yet trivial device and are more than happy to participate in the redistribution of their wealth.
2 Mil sounds about right. Serious fanboys and girls will always have to get the newest. They cant help it.
Jack of all trades,master of none
iPhone or Droid
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
But popularity doesn't coincide with quality. Take Windows for example. Or Java. Popular, but they all suck ass.
...ten thousand neckbeards cried "SHEEPLE!"
Every slashdot thread about Apple is going to be full of the same dolts who can't see the bigger picture. Can people buy something because they love it? Does it perform beautifully? Does it do what I want it to do, better, faster, longer? Yes. Then I buy it, because I have the money to spend on it, because I'm a reasonable person who doesn't want all the lame features and crappy 2nd rate applications that android devices have. Let's be fair here, it doesn't matter what the sweaty neck beards here on slashdot say, because they said the same shit about every Apple release since the first iPod, they just don't get it. They also don't get social interactions, females, really good music, and the simple, pleasurable things in life, because they are sweaty neckbeards and will always target why something isn't good enough instead of why Apple products sell like gangbusters (her knees are too boney): People buy Apple iPhones (and other gear) because they WORK GREAT.
There's an Apple fan born every minute.
In other news today, the ocean contains a lot of water. Democrats and Republicans don't agree. Gas is expensive.
As far as pre-ordering = idiot, that's false. There are a lot of products you can in good faith buy before they are out. Video games, movies you have already seen - you don't need to know of the additional features, the movie alone is enough to base a pre-order of the uber edition bluray on. Some games are very pre-orderable. Resident Evil 6 ultra edition, depending on system, includes products people already have or want - RE1, RE2, RECVX, RE3, RE4, RE5, RE degeneration - we assume the new game is going to be terrible (well, actual fans) but we're down with buying the other games again because they're worth it.
As far as the Samsung bull goes, just shut up. Samsung is better than Apple. Samsung has been in the business far longer than Apple, and the lawsuit against them is completely asinine - the massive evidence that Apples iphone is based entirely on patents held by other people and products produced by other people for years before the iphone existed was completely ignored just so Apple could dick yet another company on lawsuits.
And no, I highly doubt you aren't a sheople. No one buys an iPhone on purpose because of their personal experience with it and how awesome it is - it's a toy and they told you to buy it so you buy it. There's no feature of the iphone that other phones dont have for a better price, and Siri is crap.
Apparently there's, on average, 1389 suckers born every minute.
Lol - your tears of hate taste delicious. Enjoy beating your girlfriend and remember - soft tissue damage doesn't show fuckface. Say hello to your dad's penis when it slides over your tongue.
Koyaanisqatsi. Hopi for "life out of balance," a word that is only known to many because of a particular movie of the same name. It's not that technology drives our lives out of balance; far from it. It is when technology supercedes everything else. Serial Experiments: Lain. Ghosts in the shell. Living in the circuitry. A holy silicon wafer.
So many posts in this thread use the excuse, "We will be buying a 2-year plan for a phone we have to have anyway, might as well get this one," or "A phone is something you use everyday anyway, might as well be a good one," when these statements blind users to the fact that a phone isn't always necessary. I must be the only person reading this thread without a smart phone. Am I saying, "Look at me, I don't need it?" It's not that I don't need it; I choose to live without it. Am I dysfunctional for not wanting a phone? Probably. Yet our relationship with technology has blurred the line between natural being and artificial machines.
Communication is an integral part of the human condition and required for emotional links to our family and friends. Yet, comments and phones like these remind me of technological pornography: an addiction designed to rub you all the right ways. These phones remind me of substance abuse. It is good to have a phone, of course it is... but there must be a limit between use and abuse. There is now a generation that has never lived without smart phones, who have never lived without the Internet, a generation of people dependent on electrons pushed through never-ending wires, eternal radio transmissions, an endless vista of pure silicon and gleaming metals. The amount of information overload in our society is staggering, and this double-edged sword will continue to whet and sharpen... but when will it actually sever and separate the truth from fiction?
A book called Brave New World postulated that in the future there will be so much information that the powers that be will be able to control the masses through things they like, not things they fear. The amount of data that is processed through our heads has reached a point where we have difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality, what is trivial from what is important, what is true from what is false. Objects bubble up in the maelstrom into the awareness of the public consciousness, then quickly sink and fade into obscurity: Ruby Ridge and Waco are the first things that come to mind. Things happen and then they vanish, only to be mentioned as a blurb in the history books. There was once a time when people remembered. Now we happily drown in a sea of solipsism, engrossed to the point of dissociation.
Okay, I'm done. No, I'm not on anything. I wish I was, then I could forget...
Yes, I'm crazy. I must be the only one.
and yeah, soon I won't be able to resist the lure of smart phone, either. But not yet.
Pavlov.
How is it overpriced when it costs the same as the other phones?
The overpriced myth is possibly the most hilarious anti-Apple meme because it is so provably untrue. The meme is also indefensible when compared to the price spectrum on lots of other products. Plenty of people don't buy the cheapest car they can find; and in fact they routinely pay 30-100% more than the cheapest for largely aesthetic reasons, and those people are not subject to the same kind reductive criticism which Slashdotters heap on iPhone users for paying the same or maybe 10-20% more for the phone they want.
You kinda make yourself look like an idiot for implying that Linux is somehow more UNIX than an actual UNIX system. OSX can do anything that any other UNIX system can do.
Apple is on their way to being the first every trillion dollar company. This isn't a loss, Apple is a huge winner.
The problem is that people buy features, not specifications. Everything you cite there is a numeric specification. But when it comes down to usefulness, there's nothing important those android phones can do that an older iPhone can't. And the iPhone looks and feels like a higher quality phone. In citing the specs, you're asking users to choose a phone that doesn't feel as fast or as high quality, based on your assurances that it's actually better because of a few numbers. In reality, you're the one who is being duped. All they had to do was throw some big numbers at you and you were sold. You didn't actually consider the merits of the individual devices.
In reality, the specs have little to do with how useful a phone will actually be. Things like how responsive the interface is and what kind of visual feedback it can provide are much more important to the user experience. The S3 is a good example of a phone that was designed to have specifications that exceed the iPhone. It's screen is much larger, but that means the phone itself is too big for most women (and some men) to use comfortably in one hand. It has more ram and more, faster processors, but the UI doesn't seem any faster or more responsive.
you do realize that the iPhone 4 and 4s sold over 100 million each right? and the iPhone 5 is slated to break 230 mil
I wish I could frame it better--but in a nutshell you are just a fucking moron.
Aesthetics have value to humans and always have, in every field for all of history--if that makes all humans stupid then you just fundamentally have a problem with humanity.
Your way of calculating the iPhone premium for its nonexpandable flash memory is transparently dumb. Let me recalculate for you:
"Lets see, the iPhone has a higher screen resolution than your wife's phone. The cost to retrofit your wife's phone with an iPhone-quality display is about a $100K, therefore your wife's phone is overpriced by about $100K."
Why can't you just accept that some people like a different phone than you? is that too much complexity for your tiny little brain to handle?